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Research-action can be valuable if it really attacks one of the fundamental aspects of the social division of labour; that is, the separation between intellectual and non-intellectual activity.The author describes a research-action project that took place in a factory using asbestos materials and which resulted in a specific type of health intervention as well as a movement by the workers to control their working conditions.Through a nominally "medical" intervention, both immediate, practical as well as more "political" demands were formulated by the workers. Prevention is now seen within the framework of a reorganization of the workplace and society. The perception of the problem was thus transformed. For exemple, the union now sees scientific work as an integral part of its strategy.
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What is clinical writing ? What is its intention, its object, its purpose ? And can this notion really be applied to Hippocratic writings ? To explore this question, we will briefly look at the general notion of medical writing as it is addressed in several places in Hippocratic and galenic literature. We will then analyse more specifically and at length, within the Hippocratic corpus, the case of Books I and III of the Epidemics, which offer a remarkable and problematic example of what can be expected, in antiquity, from clinical writing.
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ABSTRACTAt the beginning of this century, the integration of bacteriology into the practice of public health led to a deepening separation between curative medicine on the one hand and preventive medicine on the other; this created a need for new specialists in hygiene (doctors, nurses, dentists, etc.) who very soon required better professional training. Thus developed, from 1918 onwards, schools of public health, first in the United States then in Canada. There were only two schools of public health in Canada, the first in Toronto (1925-1975) for Anglophones, and the School of Hygiene of the University of Montreal (1946-1970) for Francophones. The two schools were subsequently integrated into the faculties of medicine with the reforms of the early 1970s. This study describes the early initiatives in specialised training in public health in Quebec Francophone universities from 1911 onwards, the circumstances surrounding the creation of the School of Hygiene, its original mission, and the evolution of its administrative structure. The paper then analyses in more detail the school's programs, the composition of its staff and of its students.
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This article brings together the results of research, first, on popular medicine of women and families in Quebec from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s and, secondly, on the history of fertility in Quebec since the French Regime. Different ways of dealing with unwanted pregnancies before the introduction of modem contraception and abortion, practices of popular medicine (control of breastfeeding, of menstrual cycles, of deliveries and miscarriages) and social practices (abandonments of children, infanticides) are presented here and discussed.